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Unam Sanctam wrote:

Thanks for the Kipling. Do you know if he had any immediate historical parallel that he was thinking of when he wrote it?

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First, I will have you know that I usually don't Kiple on a first date! I hope you don't think I'm fast!

I do NOT know if Rudyard had anyone in particular in mind. I DO know that he was well aquainted with our good friends the Muslims....

Still , the poem seemed appropriate today.

[CDHart]

One of Kipling's poem also has something about "when you lay dying on Afghanistant's plains, and the women come out to cut up the remains, roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your God like a soldier."

Carolyn